Yasmin Nakhuda, better known as Darwin’s mother, will be staging a protest Wednesday afternoon in the hopes of getting her monkey back.

The protest is scheduled to take place today at 4 p.m. in front of the Toronto Animal Services offices, located at 1300 Sheppard Ave. West in the North end of the city.

Darwin was taken away from Nakhuda when he went missing at the North York IKEA in Toronto by Animal Services.

According to Nakhuda, the monkey freed himself from his crate before unlocking the vehicle doors with his thumbs.

Hilarity shortly ensued on the world wide web with Darwin and his little jacket quickly becoming one of the most popular Internet memes of the year.

Below is a picture of Darwin being portrayed as the Batman villain, Bane.

Darwin is pictured as the Batman villain, Bane.

However, losing her beloved monkey wasn’t so funny for Nakhuda. She’s now petitioning to have the animal returned to her, repeatedly calling Darwin her child.

“Darwin is my needy ‘child’. Darwin is a Japanese macaque and Japanese macaques share 93% human DNA,” said the monkey’s owner in a live chat with The Toronto Sun. “Right now he doesn’t need an expert but he needs his mother [referring to herself].”

“Japanese macaques are very social animals, they work as waiters in restaurants in Japan.”

When asked whether or not Nakhuda was willing to move to a place where it’s legal to keep a monkey, she responded: “We are already working on offers to purchase a property in Kawartha Lakes, where ownership of monkeys is not prohibited.”

As questions poured in, it was inevitable that someone was going to comment on Darwin’s faux-shearling coat.

“I love Darwin’s coat,” read a posted comment.

“He loved it too,” Nakhuda responded.” He waited patiently for me to put it on. There were six buttons and when I put the last one on top he would move his head to the side and wait for me to button it up.”

Mike MacDonald is a news editor and writer at Postmedia. His writing also appears weekly in The Onion. When not working, Michael can be found playing crunchy grooves on his ukulele in his Toronto home... read more.View author's profile